Cigar-holding attachment.



No. 856,362. PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907v w. c. OLIVER. CIGAR HOLDING ATTAGHMENL APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 190'].

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WILBUR O. OLIVER, OF BATH, MAINE.

CIGAR-HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed February 26,1907. Serial No. 359,455.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILBU'R O. OLIVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bath, Maine, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Cigar-Holding Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improved holder for lighted cigars designed to be attached to billiard, dining tables, lunch counters, and the like, and is preferably combined with a match receptacle and ash receiver.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this sort which may be secured to the under portion of the table or counter top in such a manner as to enable it to be nor mally out of sight while it may be conveniently drawn or moved out into position for ready access. By the use of a device of this charaeter,a party who is playing billiards may have a place to deposit his lighted cigar where there is no dan er of its being knocked offor of its setting fire to anything. In a similar manner, if the device is used in connection with a lunch table or counter, a convenient receptacle is afforded for the deposit of the lighted cigar without occupying room upon the table and interfering in any way with any of its furnishings.

lVith the foregoing, and possibly other obj ects in view, the invention includes the construction herein described and particularly set forth in the appended claims.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a table top with the device applied thereto and drawn out into position for convenient access. Fig. 2

is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end view.

Referring by reference characters to this drawing, the numeral 4 designates a portion of the table top which is representative of any billiard or pool table, or restaurant counter, or the like to which it may be desired to attach a device of this character.

The numeral 5 designates a holder for a lighted cigar which is preferably in the form of an elongated semicircular trough 5 having a flat top or cover 5 which extends over the greater part of the trough, but leaves the front portion uncovered, as indicated at 5, to allow for the more ready grasping of the cigar. The cover is provided with an opening for the passage of a screw or like device secured to the underside of the table top. An opening 8 is provided in the bottom of the trough in line with this screw to permit the insertion of the screw for securing the device in place.

adapted to be grasped for swinging it back and forth.

I preferably provide in connection with this cigar holder, a match tray 10 and a removable ash receiver 11. It is desirable that a device of this character should be made in as economical a manner as possible, and I find a convenient method of doing this is to construct the whole of the device, excepting the ash tray or receiver, of a single piece of sheet metal. I accomplish this by bending up the trough and match box out of a single sheet metal blank, as shown, and extending the edge of the cigar holder not only across the top of the cigar holder, but also across the rear half of the match receptacle. The free edge of the cover of the cigar holder may be provided with tongues 5 bent into openings in a side edge of the trough 5, though I do not limit myself to this form of connection. be connected at its outer edge in a similar manner, as clearly shown in the drawing. The side wall of the match boxis extended forward in the shape of a strip 13 and bent at right angles and riveted at the front to the side wall of the cigar holder to form with the edge of the cigar holder a match box, a rectangular open frame which receives the removable ash receptacle.

The cover or top plate of the trough is provided with a roughened or corrugated 01'- tion, as shown, for convenience in stri ing matches thereon. I also find it desirable to as shown at 7 by which it may be pivotally The trough is preferably provided at its front end with a depending handle 9 The cover 12 of the match box may provide a spring as shown at 14 for automatically returning the device under the table after it has been drawn out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. An attachment for tables, counters and the like, comprising a cigar receiving trough having a flat protecting plate or cover, and means for movably connecting the said plate or cover to the underside of the top of a table or counter, substantially as described.

2. An attachment of the class described, comprising an elongated cigar receiving trough open at one end, a covering plate therefor extending part way to said open end,

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and means for removably connecting said plate or cover to the underside of a table or counter top, substantially as described.

3. An attachment of the class described, comprising an elongated cigar receiving trough having an integral cover, and open at one end, said cover having an opening near the rear end for the reception of an attaching screw and the trough having an opening in line with the opening of the cover, substantially as described.

4. An attachment of the class described, comprising a sheet metal trough open at one end, a match receptacle at one side integral therewith, and a cover plate integral with the trough and extending in part over both the trough and match box, substantially as described.

5. An attachment o1 the class described, comprising a trough open at one end, a match receptacle at the side of the trough, a bar or strip extending from the side of the match box to the front end of the trough forming with the corresponding sides of the trough and match box an open frame, and an ash receptacle removably supported by said frame,substantially as described.

6. In combination with a table top or the like, an elongated trough open at the end for the insertion of a lighted cigar, said trough having a cover designed for protecting the Wood from the heat of the cigar, and being pivotally connected to the table, and a spring interposed between the table and trough for automatically swinging the trough under the table top after the cigar has been placed therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILBUR C. OLIVER. 

